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Comment by kryten | Hacker News Reader

Let's kick the Brits out of the EU (they don't seem to be too happy in there anyway); they are basically just a foothold for the American fascists in the EU and do their bidding

Brit here (well half German so you will get the irony of this comment).

You're confusing the British people with the government. We the people are not represented by our government, media or press.

Thank you. Guten tag.

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I worked for 12 month in the UK and I met a lot of people that absolutely hated everything about Europe, the EU or the Euro. And this was before the crisis.

I think it depends a lot on the age and the amount of consumption of Murdoch media per day.

Fair point. There is a shit ton of moronic dross in the UK.

I've actually been told I was "gay" (immature eh?) for not reading a Murdoch rag before so your point hits home pretty hard.

Perhaps I should just move out of the country :)

You are not excused from taking responsibility for your government, which is formed on the basis of the support of its people. You are responsible for your British government, citizen.

I certainly am excused when we don't have proportional voting, coalitions are used to keep the major parties in power and I don't vote anyway because I do not wish to be responsible for what the government do which is never what I have voted for. No UK party had ever kept to their manifesto - they all serve the same masters: corporations and banks.

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